Ray Allen Quotes
My nature is to keep things inside. In time, I'll be comfortable stepping up when I think the team could use my input.
Quotes to Explore
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
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I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.
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Let students use technologies in the classroom.
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Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
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Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn't look at the balance sheet. I'd watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I'd say this is a good company worth investing in.
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General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.
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Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
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I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from different countries, Venezuela, from Brazil, and they all played soccer, and I was on the soccer team, and I developed great relationships with them.
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All it took was one conversation to know that Reebok was the right home for our team.
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It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.
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We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.
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At one time, we were asked to play your own man; you're responsible for your own man. And, if you were good enough and kind of a ball hawk, you helped everyone else. Now it's really much more of a team concept defensively than it was when we played.
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I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.
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The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.
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I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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My nature is to keep things inside. In time, I'll be comfortable stepping up when I think the team could use my input.
